Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

Alphabets make up the core of preschool learning. The alphabet is the first thing a child needs to learn before anything ...

Research has also examined the impact of when different countries start reading instruction and have found no impact of when ...

These days, practically as soon as kids enter traditional kindergarten, they’re expected to be reading ... Kids will have so much to do, they’ll never get bored reading stories of all kinds, learning ...

Working with kids can be quite rewarding, but it can also be rather challenging. Having a love for educating children and the patience required to work with them is a good start towards becoming a ...

To refresh kindergarten teachers’ knowledge and skills on Jolly Phonics, an engaging workshop was organised at the school.

If a word is unfamiliar it can be skipped, guessed at, or picked up from context. Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music ...

Who’s to blame for student illiteracy? Look in the mirror, administrators.

But not all reading programs are created equal. Research is clear that phonics, where students learn how to sound out individual letters and words, is vastly superior to “whole language ...